Bright, warm, and quietly ambitious, Zurich-based jazz quintet Muralim feels like a deep breath at the edge of something new. Started in 2021 as a bachelor project by saxophonist Mauro Reimann at the Zurich University of the Arts, the band quickly outgrew its academic roots—earning a Best-of-Bachelor Prize and touring Switzerland. Their latest single, “Mango,”…
We first came across the Mexican producer, Carlos Salame (aka Trip Tease), during lockdown when he collaborated with Kris Berle on their downtempo EP, Shades. Now he’s teamed up with Alain Vice for two new singles that are just dripping…
There’s a quiet sort of revolution bubbling up in France right now, and at the center of it stands the double bassist Thomas Julienne and his band, Theorem Of Joy. The five-piece band builds a world where North African scales…
I don’t normally listen to pop music, but when I do, I listen to B.Miles. Actually, to call B.Miles pop music isn’t really fair. Her music is like what pop music will sound like in 10 years. Hailing from New…
Originally hailing from the Thames estuary coastal town of Southend-on-sea but now residing in London, the band First Day Of Spring has just released the first of four singles from their Vampire Prince series. The track is called ‘Partyzeit!’ and…
Giuseppe Cucè’s new album, 21 Grammi, feels like stumbling into a late-night art-house film that will take you by surprise. The album is inspired by the old legend that the human soul weighs exactly twenty-one grams — the supposed weight…
This year we are taking Christmas to the islands — from the Caribbean to the North Pacific, we’ve got warm weather Christmas music with a maritime twist. Steel drums, slide guitars, and ukeleles… it’s all about the warm-weather Christmas sound. And if a…
Sled Island 2023 took over Calgary like a hurricane this past week and we’ve got a round-up or artists you gotta check out.
Alvvays’ sound is every bit as fresh and contemporary as their first release nearly a decade previous. Read our full live review now.
I was first introduced to Dave Brubeck in a “History of Jazz” class in the early 90s. Before that point, jazz was music that my grandparents listened to. Hearing “Take Five” for the first time changed that. Paul Desmond spoke…
It’s funny how this global pandemic has found ways to bring us all closer together despite all of the pain and suffering it has caused. Closer together virtually of course. Because while the Coronavirus would like nothing more then to…